Countdown to Kickoff interview – Indiana

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04/27/2017 Added

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Discussion of national speakers at Nebraska, Nebraska Law being named #1 Best Value Law School by National Jurist magazine, and Judy Walker women in math project.

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[00:00:01.913]Greg Sharp back at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington.
[00:00:04.833]On the campus of Indiana University getting ready
[00:00:06.808]for the Huskers game against the Hoosiers.
[00:00:08.410]First time these two teams have matched up
[00:00:10.569]since Nebraska joined the Big Ten six years ago.
[00:00:13.761]I'll have a lot more about that in our game open
[00:00:15.559]coming up here in a few minutes.
[00:00:17.068]We are delighted now to be joined
[00:00:18.146]by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's chancellor.
[00:00:20.908]Ronnie Green, you've been here
[00:00:22.748]in the state for over 24 hours.
[00:00:24.525]I guess you came with some of the suite owners
[00:00:26.927]and some of those folks who are
[00:00:27.967]great friends of the University.
[00:00:28.936]Yeah, we have a game every year that Husker athletics
[00:00:33.097]brings all of our supporters who have suites
[00:00:35.688]in Memorial Stadium, in our Memorial Stadium.
[00:00:37.956]That's right.
[00:00:38.789]And haul 'em up to an away game.
[00:00:41.709]They always try to pick one where they haven't been before
[00:00:44.486]or it might be a new and unique experience
[00:00:46.752]for our supporters.
[00:00:48.317]Since we haven't been here since 1978
[00:00:50.299]they thought that was pretty good option
[00:00:52.928]to come to Bloomington.
[00:00:54.116]Came to Indianapolis yesterday and spent the day
[00:00:57.245]with the group running around the Brickyard.
[00:00:59.242]Alright.
[00:01:00.164]Taking some 120 mile an hour car rides for folks
[00:01:03.108]that wanted to do that and had a good evening
[00:01:05.107]in Indianapolis. Did you do that?
[00:01:06.276]My wife did.
[00:01:07.254]You know Husker Jane decided that she
[00:01:09.393]kinda liked that kind of thing.
[00:01:11.156]So I was on the phone trying to hire some people
[00:01:13.375]and she was in the car riding around.
[00:01:15.720]She survived it, right?
[00:01:16.557]Didn't get sick?
[00:01:17.999]She did say that she didn't think she needed
[00:01:19.764]to do it again.
[00:01:21.756]She enjoyed it but you know 120,
[00:01:23.828]she hit it and she said I think I've done that
[00:01:26.587]and I've fulfilled my dream.
[00:01:28.086]Good.
[00:01:28.919]Well I know it's a nice thing to show back to your
[00:01:31.870]boosters and people who are great friends of the program.
[00:01:33.952]It's fun to be able to spend some time with them.
[00:01:35.145]Yeah, great group of people
[00:01:36.715]and they're going to enjoy a great game
[00:01:38.182]we hope this afternoon.
[00:01:39.292]Speaking of a great group of people,
[00:01:40.714]you have been fortunate to have some
[00:01:42.743]in terrific national type speakers come on
[00:01:45.413]to the UNL campus in recent weeks.
[00:01:46.997]It's one of the great things about being
[00:01:48.180]around a University community
[00:01:49.374]is to be able to go out and bring in people to come
[00:01:51.486]and make presentations to your students.
[00:01:53.522]Yeah, just in this last
[00:01:56.256]ten days, two week period we've had three big speakers
[00:01:59.525]on our campus in a variety of areas.
[00:02:02.265]The E.N. Thompson forum series that is kind of a mainstay
[00:02:06.360]on our campus that has different themes every year.
[00:02:09.669]And we bring in internationally known speakers
[00:02:12.018]to the campus.
[00:02:12.851]I had David Brooks here just recently.
[00:02:15.037]A conservative columnist,
[00:02:16.212]very well known writer in the political world.
[00:02:19.760]He came and talked to us about
[00:02:22.664]kind of the reality of politics today
[00:02:25.749]and had great things to say to us.
[00:02:28.827]Very pleased to have David as part of the E.N. Thompson
[00:02:31.338]forum series this year.
[00:02:33.221]Then this past week we had a couple big speakers
[00:02:36.267]on our campus as well.
[00:02:38.463]We had Mark Lynas who has been a leader
[00:02:42.137]in the Greenpeace movement throughout his life.
[00:02:45.541]Who for a long time was kinda adamantly opposed
[00:02:49.057]to genetic modification of crops,
[00:02:51.204]which are important as we know to Nebraska certainly,
[00:02:55.338]but changed his mind about that three years ago
[00:02:58.032]and took a reversal and said he thought that the use
[00:03:00.641]of that kind of technology is really important
[00:03:03.206]for the future of the world and that science was behind it.
[00:03:06.868]So he came and talked in one of our lecture series
[00:03:09.496]called the Heueremman Lectures
[00:03:10.998]at our Institute of Ag and Natural Resources this past week.
[00:03:14.825]Then just I guess on Thursday night we had Donna Brazile
[00:03:19.626]with us on campus.
[00:03:21.157]Donna is currently serving as the interim Chair
[00:03:23.005]of the Democratic National Committee,
[00:03:25.786]has been a long time known columnist
[00:03:28.142]and person in the media world especially
[00:03:31.550]in and around politics.
[00:03:33.367]She was part of our Hearst series
[00:03:34.960]that the College of Journalism and Mass Communications
[00:03:37.978]sponsors every year.
[00:03:40.328]She was here the same night Brad Paisley was
[00:03:42.159]so how about that you know?
[00:03:43.470]To have Donna on one side of the campus
[00:03:45.717]and Brad Paisley over with about 7,000
[00:03:47.608]of our students and supporters in front of Memorial Stadium.
[00:03:50.618]That's pretty good.
[00:03:51.455]That's pretty cool.
[00:03:52.296]Now when you bring these speakers on campus
[00:03:54.371]can anybody go or is there an admission charge
[00:03:56.915]for these type of things?
[00:03:58.074]No, they're open.
[00:03:59.759]Most of the time these lectures are open
[00:04:02.359]to our students to the community on campus
[00:04:05.689]as well as the general public.
[00:04:07.862]The E.N. Thompson forum's always held
[00:04:09.571]at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts.
[00:04:11.710]It housed about 2,200 people in that venue
[00:04:14.053]and oftentimes it's packed.
[00:04:16.316]As it was for the David Brooks event here recently.
[00:04:20.489]And that's open to the public.
[00:04:21.598]You know they can get tickets and free access to
[00:04:24.755]those kinds of events.
[00:04:25.896]The Heueremman lectures, same way.
[00:04:27.718]The Hearst lecture the same way.
[00:04:29.451]These are open events for the campus
[00:04:31.442]and for the general community at-large.
[00:04:33.134]Great.
[00:04:33.967]Visiting with Nebraska- Lincoln Chancellor Ronnie Green
[00:04:36.849]here on Countdown to Kickoff.
[00:04:38.546]Some exciting news for your law school as well
[00:04:41.154]here in recent weeks and tell everybody about that.
[00:04:44.502]Well you know we've been very proud of our law school
[00:04:47.762]for a long time.
[00:04:48.595]Our college of law is the only public college of law
[00:04:52.764]in our state.
[00:04:53.625]Creighton University being the other private college of law.
[00:04:58.103]The last three years we've been very pleased
[00:05:01.301]that the National Jurist magazine,
[00:05:04.192]a mainstay in that law environment,
[00:05:06.737]has ranked our college of law.
[00:05:08.666]I think two years ago they were number two
[00:05:10.569]and last year they were number one,
[00:05:11.969]and then just recently announced this past week
[00:05:14.068]again they're number one in 2016
[00:05:16.671]as the best value college of law in the country.
[00:05:20.919]That reflects high bar passage rates,
[00:05:24.469]placement of graduates in law firms
[00:05:27.109]and getting them into their
[00:05:28.505]professional career post-graduation,
[00:05:31.907]how much it cost to attend our law school,
[00:05:34.191]which is amongst the most competitive in the United States,
[00:05:37.766]competitiveness of getting into the law school.
[00:05:40.221]All of those things combined to reflect on a really
[00:05:43.532]high value college of law that we're blessed
[00:05:46.150]to have at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
[00:05:47.890]I've got a little personal touch in that currently
[00:05:49.690]because our second oldest child is a third year law,
[00:05:53.490]or 3L as they call them, in UNL's college of law.
[00:05:57.100]So I'm experiencing that as a citizen and a consumer
[00:06:02.703]seeing one our children graduate this coming year
[00:06:05.623]from our college of law.
[00:06:06.757]Very exciting and congratulations to all
[00:06:08.303]that were involved in that.
[00:06:09.604]I want to ask you about your interim
[00:06:11.051]Associate Vice-Chancellor for academic affairs Judy Walker.
[00:06:13.721]She's a professor of mathematics at UNL.
[00:06:16.567]She has an interesting project going on right now to try to,
[00:06:19.219]I guess what get more women involved in mathematics?
[00:06:21.619]Yeah, so Judy is the leader of a project
[00:06:25.003]that we just received word on has been funded
[00:06:27.094]by the National Science Foundation.
[00:06:29.163]There are a number of these around the country
[00:06:30.892]but we're very pleased to be one of
[00:06:32.460]those highly selected projects that's focused on
[00:06:36.340]encouraging more women nationally
[00:06:39.163]to go into the field of mathematics.
[00:06:40.806]Judy's been a long time leader as a woman herself
[00:06:44.141]in the field and as the leader of our math department
[00:06:47.386]that's in the top end of math departments nationally.
[00:06:50.939]Very pleased about that.
[00:06:52.287]Our math department for a long time
[00:06:54.402]has been very heavily invested in public K-12 math education
[00:07:00.592]and encouraging and elevating math education nationally.
[00:07:05.418]So this is another gem in their crown
[00:07:07.143]to now be leading this kind of nationally funded
[00:07:09.708]effort around women to encourage more than,
[00:07:12.126]it's currently about a quarter of the people
[00:07:14.741]that are involved in math education are women,
[00:07:17.418]three-fourths are men.
[00:07:19.366]So we are trying to change that and get some gender equity
[00:07:22.647]in the math field.
[00:07:24.640]I'm very proud of Judy leading that effort.
[00:07:26.330]Very good.
[00:07:27.163]You mentioned the Brad Paisley concert.
[00:07:28.327]That was fun.
[00:07:29.160]I was out there for that.
[00:07:29.993]That was a really neat thing.
[00:07:30.826]I'm glad that that was brought to Lincoln.
[00:07:32.026]It's another nice little caveat
[00:07:33.417]for the students to go enjoy.
[00:07:34.637]Yeah, we were co-sponsoring that
[00:07:37.277]with our marketing group.
[00:07:40.612]And to have the opportunity
[00:07:42.944]on a night of a away game weekend
[00:07:46.333]giving our students a way to plug into Husker athletics.
[00:07:50.023]Brad Paisley has done a number of these concerts
[00:07:52.332]around the country.
[00:07:53.302]He's a big collegiate athletics fan himself.
[00:07:56.469]Paid a tribute to Sam Folks during the concert
[00:07:59.263]that was very touching.
[00:08:02.031]To have it there kinda in that setting,
[00:08:03.918]they had it just to the north of the stadium
[00:08:07.143]where the main entrance to the athletics department is.
[00:08:10.508]In that arena and with Memorial Stadium,
[00:08:14.396]Brad was if you can picture it,
[00:08:16.152]he was staged facing south
[00:08:18.193]at the end of that north parking lot
[00:08:20.580]full of students up to the entrance
[00:08:23.586]to the athletics department with Memorial Stadium
[00:08:26.542]in the backdrop.
[00:08:27.378]It's a great picture.
[00:08:28.211]The letters of Nebraska through the windows
[00:08:30.870]of the athletic offices.
[00:08:32.964]It was a really cool scene to see it.
[00:08:35.152]Okay.
[00:08:35.985]Always appreciate you taking time to talk to us.
[00:08:37.698]Enjoy the game today.
[00:08:38.556]We'll see you back in Lincoln next week.
[00:08:39.884]You bet.
[00:08:40.717]Go Big Red, 6-0.
[00:08:41.550]Ronnie Green with us here on Countdown to Kickoff.
[00:08:43.823]Matt Coatney has the Big Ten blitz coming up next.

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